'Aakasmikam' takes a family of three on a bumpy trip down guilt line, as each grapples with oneself to throw off the demons that cling to their backs. Ranjith (Siddique) is quite perturbed that his wife Anitha (Swetha Menon) is pregnant. Their only son Pranav (Ashwin) who is getting ready for the board exams has quite a lot on his mind, besides studies. 

 

Renjith is a man who appears to be just another man who is leading with a midlife crisis, who is frantically trying to come to terms with a dwindling sex life and the inescapable sense of boredom that several years of matrimony has imposed on him. Deeper down however, he might be an extremely agitated person who cannot understand why his wife, who is fast approaching forty, has decided to keep their newly conceived child in her womb.

 

Anitha is equally confused, as she feels terribly confined within the congesting walls of their apartment on the ninth floor of one of the many looming structures that adorn the city. She has got used to a husband who has been quite verbal in expressing his displeasure towards her, and even doubts that her teenager son is distancing herself away from her. She hopes for her new child to be a girl, with whom she could spend some time voicing her thoughts that otherwise seem to be choking her from within.

 

Pranav is amused at his mother's pregnancy, but is too busy to pay heed since he has battles of his own to wage. Passing through a metamorphosis, the pangs of adolescence leave him all shaken up. His dictator of a dad isn't one he can look up to, and along with his best pal, he devises plans to woo his first crush ever.

 

The three characters that thus carry the story forward are loosely etched and very often stand facing each other in the narrative, at a loss to offer an explanation as to why things are. His excessive drinking or his losing himself in a stash of porn do not offer an identity to Ranjith. He is neither a sex maniac nor an alcohol addict, and we fail to see why he is angry with the world.